- Thursday, April 25, 2024
By: Keerthi Mohan
Tanzeela Qambrani will become Pakistan’s first ever lawmaker of African descent. The 39-year-old was nominated by Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) to a women’s reserved seat in the regional parliament of southern Sindh province, reported BBC News. Qambrani hopes to wash away the contempt associated with the Sidi community, the local name for the ethnic African population concentrated in the coastal regions of Makran and Sindh. “As a tiny minority lost in the midst of local populations, we have struggled to preserve our African roots and cultural expression, but I look forward to the day when the name Sidi will evoke…
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